Quotes About Meaning

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

True existence is only defined by rationality.

El hombre debe aprender que el sentido de la vida consiste en dar ejemplo.

The Surrealism movement, our professor explained, was inspired by Freud's concept of the uncanny, the dreadful double. According to Freud, doubling creates meaning. Doubling turns sounds into words; a baby first speaks by turning ma into mama, pa into papa. But when a double appears uninvited—the buried object returns—it brings us into the realm of the uncanny. We watch dead things wake up. And we are afraid.

Sometimes, but if you do it enough, it's harder to trip your gag reflex, which comes in very handy, if you know what I mean." I did know what she meant, but somehow juxtaposing it with vomiting made the whole thing highly unappealing.

The truth is that life in the end--even a long life, especially a long life--amounts to a handful of a very few things. The longer you live, the shorter the story.

Alex, you cannot understand the meaning of productivity unless you know what the goal is. Until then, you're just playing a lot of games with numbers and words." "Okay, then it's market share," I tell him. "That's the goal." "Is it?" he asks. He steps into the plane. "Hey! Can't you tell me?" I call to him. "Think about it, Alex. You can find the answer with your own mind," he says.

Every organization was built for a purpose. We haven't built any organization just for the sake of its mere existence.

a measurement not clearly defined is worse than useless.

If I have all the faith so as to move mountains,but do not have love,then I an nothing.

The story seems to begin with catastrophe but in fact began earlier and is not a tragedy but rather a love story. Perhaps tragedies are only tragedies in the presence of love, which confers meaning to loss. Loss is not felt in the absence of love.

Love is only what you think it is at the time. Or what you make it. It doesn't exist of itself. It's born out of the spark that ignites when two people suddenly notice each other. Or it isn't. I mean, sparks die too, or you kill them deliberately.

Instruct me how to thank thee! Oh, to shoot My soul's full meaning into future years, That they should lend it utterance, and salute Love that endures, from life that disappears!

XI I sang his name instead of song; Over and over I sang his name: Backward and forward I sang it along, With my sweetest notes, it was still the same! I sang it low, that the slave-girls near Might never guess, from what they could hear, That all the song was a name.

She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know)

Love doesn't make the world go round, Love is what makes the ride worthwhile!

A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all . . .

When there is no longer any growth in me, I desire to die — for one. And at present I by no means desire to die.

Human brains are excellent pattern makers. They'll figure out a pattern even if all you've got are random data points that don't actually mean anything, which is why we also have AIs and statisticians. And AI statisticians, who are kind of terrifying.

Prometheans were never shy about appropriating symbols.

Baines's smirk gave the words layers Kit did not care to think about.

Had he robbed her of all joy forever? Or of all trust in her joy, which amounted to the same thing?

It was mockery, but not dismissal. Mockery that hid something else, something slick and sapient, and Will went after it carefully as tickling fish.

The boy who was Strifbjorn is a whore. It's an irony the wolf should be prepared to savor, before he leaves the boy to his fate.